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Professor Keith Hanley
Professor of English Literature
Department: English and Creative Writing
Degree: MA, B.Litt (Oxford), PhD (Lancaster), FEA, FRSA
Current Teaching
Professor Hanley lectures in Victorian Literature and British Romanticism.
Research Interests
At Lancaster I founded the Wordsworth Centre, which I directed from 1988-2000, and initiated the transfer of the John Howard Whitehouse Ruskin Collections from Bembridge school, directing the Ruskin Centre at Lancaster from 2000-2008.
From 1994 I have co-edited the quarterly Nineteenth Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal (published by Routledge since 2002), currently with David Thomas. I have held posts at a number of European universities and at Notre Dame, Indiana.
Since 1991 I have been a permanent member of the executive board of the American organisation, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), which holds annual conferences throughout the United States and occasionally in Europe. My interest in nineteenth-century interdisciplinary studies is reflected in many edited collections of essays on, for example, Politics and Romanticism; Romanticism and Gender; the representation of place in literature; and Ruskin, Art and Society. With Greg Kucich, I co-edited the essay collection Nineteenth Century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present (Routledge, 2008).
I have written widely on Wordsworth from a historicist and psycholinguistic point of view, including Wordsworth: A Poet's History (Palgrave, 2001), and numerous articles and chapters.
My Ruskin researches resulted in becoming the Principal Investigator for the AHRC project, John Ruskin, Cultural Travel and Popular Access, 2005-8. With Rachel Dickinson I edited the essay collection Ruskin's Struggle for Coherence (Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2006; pbk 2008) and a special issue of Prose Studies, "Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travel", November 2009. I have written a monograph, John Ruskin's Northern Tours 1837-1838: Travelling North (Mellen Press, 2007) and, with John Walton, the book Constructing Cultural Travel: John Ruskin and the Direction of the Tourist Gaze (Channel View; 2011). I have also published a series of related articles and chapters.
A long-standing interest in scholarly editing, textual criticism and bibliography informed the following works:
A collection on theory and practice, Romantic Revisions, with Robert Brinkley (Cambridge University Press, 1992); critical editions of George Meredith and W.S.Landor (Carcanet, 1984/88 and 1981/88), and Joanna Baillie: A Selection of Plays and Poems, edited with Amanda Gilroy (Pickering and Chatto, 2002); An Annotated Critical Bibliography of William Wordsworth (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995); "Textual Issues and a Guide to Further Reading" in The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth, edited by Stephen Gill (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and the entries on "Wordsworth" and "Landor" in The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd. edn., edited by Joanne Shattock (Cambridge University Press, 2000). I was Lead Investigator and Consultant Textual Editor for The Electronic Edition of John Ruskin's Modern Painters I, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2000 - 2002. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ruskin/empi/index.html
Organised conferences and curated exhibitions include:
· Ruskin, Venice, and 19th Century Cultural Travel, in collaboration with INCS, The Department of European and Postcolonial Studies of University of Ca' Foscari, Venice, Arciconfraternita della Scuola Grande di San Rocco, and Venice International University, 25th-27th September, 2008.
· Journeys of a Lifetime - Ruskin's Continental Tours, co-curated with Rachel Dickinson, the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, 19 April - 28 September, 2008. The catalogue was funded by the Yves Hervouet Research Fund for Anglo-French Relations.
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
· "Newman's Path to Rome: The Cultural Geography of Liberal Assent", in Newman and Truth, Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs 39, ed. Terrence Merrigan and Ian Kerr, Peeters, Louvain, 2008, pp. 111-46.
· "Ruskin's Ecological Gaze: Nature, Art, and the Ethics of Realism", translated by Yasuo Kawabata and Reiko Horikawa, Bulletin of the Ruskin Bunko, January 2009.
· An essay collection, Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travel, co-edited with Emma Sdegno (Le Bricole, Venice, 2010).
· "Becoming Ruskin: Travel Writing and Identity in Praeterita", in Literature and Authenticity, 1790-1900, ed. Philip Shaw, Ashley Chantler and Michael Davies (Ashgate, 2011).
· An essay collection, Persistent Ruskin--Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect, containing my essay "The Ruskin Diaspora", edited with Brian Maidment (Ashgate; scheduled for 2012).
Currently, I am preparing an edition of John Ruskin's Continental Tour, 1835: The Written Records and Drawings, assisted by an MHRA Research Associate, Dr Caroline S. Hull, to be published by Legenda, 2012, and completing a book on Sacred Geographies of the Nineteenth Century.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I am interested particularly in interdisciplinary approaches, especially in literature, religion, politics and the visual arts. My present research concerns sacred geographies of the nineteenth century and Romantic anti-capitalism, cultural tourism and travel writing.
Memberships
Professor Hanley is a Fellow of the English Association and of The Royal Society of Arts. He is appointed as a trustee and director of the Catholic National Library and Shakespeare North Trust. Since 2001, he has served as the Master of the Northern Catholic Writers' Guild of St Francis.
Memberships
Professor Hanley is a Fellow of the English Association and of The Royal Society of Arts, and a Consultant Editor of the English Review. He is appointed as a trustee and director of the Catholic National Library and Shakespeare North Trust. Since 2001, he has served as the Master of the Northern Catholic Writer's Guild of St Francis.
Associated Keywords: Art/cultural history, Art history, Catholicism, Cultural geography, Economic history, English, Ethics of genetics, G.K.Chesterton, Globalisation, Interdisciplinary, J.M.W.Turner, Literary and cultural theory, Literature, Literature and politics, Manuscripts, Marcel Proust, National identities, New historicism, Nineteenth-century culture, Nineteenth-century literature, Psychoanalytic criticism, Regionalism, Religion and literature, Romanticism, Romanticism and spirituality, Ruskin, Textual criticism, The north, Theology, Thomas Carlyle, Tourism, Travel, William Cobbett, Wordsworth
Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1524 92451
Room: County, B90
Office Hour: 10-12.00, Wednesdays
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United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510851
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